This here is Jase from the reality show “Duck Dynasty” riding point on a GP-15. Actually Jase is just the nickname given to him by some of his Browns Yard colleagues. These guys are hard-wor... (more)

NS 5282 leads a twenty one car train west out of Browns Yard. Its destination is the industrial park in Dayton, NJ. In the distance sits an EMD SD40-2, I believe NS 1705. Also, if you look abov... (more)

Three years ago, on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, the afternoon Conrail local out of Browns Yard in central New Jersey was led by NS GP38-2 5271 and CSX GP40-2 4429, both former Conrail units, the 8061 a... (more)

CSXT GP40-2 4419 backs up rush hour traffic on County Route 615 as it leads a 26-car local down the Amboy Secondary toward its customers on the Dayton Branch. Looks like it's time to change the lo... (more)

In the last few minutes of sunlight, NS 5282 accelerates out of Browns Yard and over the South River with the nightly local for the industries along the Conrail Shared Assets' Dayton Branch.

Due to a fallen tree, the crew of the Conrail Shared Assets local to Freehold outlawed, forcing them to tie up near customer Reed & Perrine in Tennent. With R&P trucks parked alongside, CSXT GP38-... (more)

A few minutes before sunset, the sun finds a small window in the trees and illuminates the nose of CSXT GP38-2 2798 as she and NS GP38-2 5311 team up to pull the local up the grade from the Amboy ... (more)

For the first time in over a year a CSX GP38-2, CSXT 2798, is based out of Browns Yard instead of the usual 4400 series GP40-2s. Here, CSXT 2798 and NS 5311 lead SA33 elephant style across the Sou... (more)

Living on borrowed time... Which will the sun set on first, the Helme Snuff Mill or the blue paint on CSX GP40-2 4428? The snuff mill, built in the late 1800s and by 1925, the largest in th... (more)

With the pocket of sun disappearing fast, a 25-car SA33 is doing track speed through Helmetta on a beautiful summer evening.

SA33 ducks under the NJ Turnpike and immediately crosses Route 535 on the western border of Jamesburg.

All the pieces finally fell into place! The sun makes a rare weekday afternoon appearance for the first time in over a week as SA33 with NS 5271 shorthood forward passes the abandoned Helme Snuff ... (more)

A pan shot of NS 5271 shoving SA33 across Herrod Boulevard up the spur to serve Home Depot.

The afternoon Conrail local on the Dayton Branch used two Geeps on this day, representing both owning roads, seen here switching out covered hoppers at Cary Compounds as the sun sets.

Ten years after. Ten years and one day after Conrail disappeared, the two railroads that acquired it team up on a local on one of the last remaining bits of railroad still known as Conrail,... (more)